Posts Tagged ‘buttons’
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Call to Action Buttons: Examples and Best Practices
- October 13th, 2009
- 147 Comments
Call to action in web design — and in user experience (UX) in particular — is a term used for elements in a web page that solicit an action from the user. The most popular manifestation of call to action in web interfaces comes in the form of ...
Read more...Handcraft Strikes Back: Buttons, Badges, Pins and Clips
- May 19th, 2008
- 52 Comments
Buttons, badges and pins stand for a medium which is often underestimated and not taken seriously. That’s a pity, because designed properly, badges and buttons can effectively communicate ideas to your potential customers and impress them with something creative and beautiful. Buttons are powerful because they show what is important to ...
Read more...Icons For Your Desktop and Icons For Your Web Designs
- November 29th, 2007
- 109 Comments
The value of icons lies in their ability to communicate with visitors or users in a more intuitive and effective way. Jakob Nielsen, the maestro of usability, postulated few years ago that “recognition rather than recall” is one of the basic heuristics for user-friendly design. In fact, it’s necessary to ...
Read more...RSS: Best Design Practices And Icons
- November 2nd, 2007
- 50 Comments
RSS is extremely simple and yet so powerful. Not only does every weblog need it for content syndication; the number of RSS subscribers is a metric for weblog’s popularity and its success in the blogosphere. However, although millions do use RSS, hundreds of millions don’t. That’s no good news, since ...
Read more...Freebies Round-Up: Icons, Buttons and Templates
- May 24th, 2007
- 158 Comments
Visual design elements can considerably improve the readability of the page. Using them, you can make it easier for your users to scan the presented content and find the information they’re actually looking for. Icons can draw reader’s attention to the key aspects of the article and visualize the topic ...
Read more...Web 2.0 Tutorials Round-Up
- March 10th, 2007
- 93 Comments
Web 2.0 can be beautiful. In fact, many designers manage to create really amazing, particularly dark and fresh web-designs, which are visually appealing and make a great first impression. However, if you are planning on designing a web 2.0-project, you probably should know how and where to start from. Badges, ...
Read more...More Symbols, Buttons and Icons For Free
- December 3rd, 2006
- 19 Comments
We continue to collect best freeware and stock symbols, buttons and icons. Here are few sets we’ve stumbled upon over the last few weeks. IconCool collects Icons for Windows XP. There are 16 icon sets, which can be downloaded for free. Most of them include original icons from Microsoft.
Read more...Design Patterns: Download Buttons
- November 3rd, 2006
- 14 Comments
In the era of Web 2.0 download-buttons are becoming more and more important. Grey and simple few years ago, now they’ve become bigger, more colourful and come in dozens of variations. As the name says, download buttons are supposed to motivate visitors to use, or at least try the product ...
Read more...Symbols, Buttons and Icons For Free
- September 3rd, 2006
- 27 Comments
We’ve all been there: sitting in front of a new design layout, we realize that something doesn’t fit, is even disturbing, but we have no idea what it is and how we should improve the page. Sometimes, line-height can do the job and sometimes background can completely change the ...
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